Endless conveyer or elevator.



UNITED STATES @atenten May 12, 196e.

"PATENT CFFICE.

ENDLEss copNmvi-:Yi-:R- on ELEvAToR.

SPECIFICATION frniing part of ILetters IPatent No. 727,783, dated May 12, 1903.

Applicativi fired January s, 1903. g

saranno. 138,254. (No modem struction, utilizing sheaves, buckets, clamps,

and cables of improved construction which render splicing, repair, or removal of the cables easy and satisfactory, insure retention" of tho cables on the sheaves, and avoid all slipping of the cables, while also permitting convenient removal of the buckets.

Having the foregoing objects in view, the invention consists of certain improved features and novel combinations set forth hereinafter and embodied in the claims hereto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective; Fig. 2, a detail ofone of the sheaves; Fig. 3,'a detail of one of the clamps and bracket connecting the bucket thereto; and Fig. 4, a detailshowing the association of a sheave, clamp, and bucket.

The upper or drive shaft 1 'and the lower shaft 2 of the elevator or conveyerV are suitably journaledrin an .upright frame 3. A band-pulley 4 is on the uppershaft, whereby the conveyer or elevatoris driven. Secured on the drive-shaft lare duplicate sheaves 5, and secured on the shaft 2 are sheaves 6, similar to sheaves-5. The sheaves have an inner peripheral flange 7 and a peripheral groove 8. The flange 7 is flared at regular intervals into pockets 9, having an inner rounded andv downwardly-inclined face 10, while at the forward and rearward" margins of the pocket and at the rim -ll the sheave has the projecting ears l2 andl.

The cables 14 and 15 extend around the respective sets of sheaves in the grooves 8 thereof, and each has its ends connected or spliced by one of the clamps 16, to which the buckets 17 are connected, said buckets being connected at one end to a clamp on cable 14 and at the other end to a clamp on cable 15 by the respective brackets 18, secured to the bucket and detachably bolted at 19 to an outwardlyextending iiange or lip 20 on the clamp, which -is adapted to fit into thepocket 9 and con'- .form tothe shape of the latter. The body of the clamp has a fiat top face 2l, provided with a groove 22, which receives the cable, the latter being held in the groove by a clam p-plate 23, held to 'face 2l by a set-screw 24. The back of the clamp-body is rounded at 25 to fit the inclined back of the pocket 9, and the ears 12 and 13 embrace the clamp-body. The clamp-plate'23 also secures the ends of the V cable wherever it maybe separated.

The buckets and the grooves ofthe sheaves prevent lateral displacement of the cables from the sheaves, and the ears-12 and 13, coacting withthe clamps, cause the cables to move in unison with each other and with the sheaves and prevent all slipping.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is;

1. In an elevator or couveyer, a sheave havinga band or cable receiving rim and a iiange on the rim, said flange being provided with pockets.

2. In an elevator or couveyer, a sheave having a band or cable receiving rim and a flange on therim, said flange being provided with laterally flared `or offset portions having pockets.

3. In an elevator or couveyer, a sheave having a'fl'ange provided with pockets having curved and inclined walls.

4. In an elevator or couveyer, a sheave having a band or cable receiving rim and a ange on the rim provided with pockets having inclined bottom walls.

5. In an elevator or couveyer, a sheave having laterally-extending ears or lips on its band or cable receiving portion.

6. In an elevator or con veyer, asheavehaving notches in itsband or cable receiving portion, and laterally-extending ears or lips on the opposite margins ofsaid notches.

7. In an elevator or couveyer,-a sheave having a iiange and provided with notches or pockets in said ange and in the band or cable receiving portion of the sheave, and ears projecting'laterally from the sheave on the opposite margins of the notches or pockets.

8. In an elevator or conveyer, the combi- IOO 10. In an elevator or conveyer, the combi nation with a cable and sheaves having clampengaging means, of clamps comprising a body having a dat top provided with a groove receiving the cable, a clamp-plate for clamping the cable, a fastening removably connecting the clamp-plate to the body, a ange on the body, a bucket, a bracket on the bucket, and a detachable fastening connecting the bracket and flange.

ll. In an elevator or conveyer, the combination With a sheave having a flange provided with a pocket and a notch in the cable-receiving portion of the sheave, of a cable on the sheave, a clamp having a body received in the notch and pocket aforesaid, a clampplate securing the cable to the clamp-body, and a bucket secured to the clamp-body.

In testimony whereof I hereunto ax my signature in presence of tWo witnesses.

JOSEPH L. GILES.

Witnesses:

N. W. MOON, R. W. SWEARINGEN. 

